Posted on 04/29/2024 5:55:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...Cal Poly Humboldt administrators estimate that the cost of the damage to the campus is "in the millions," according to The Los Angeles Times.
Even schools that do not have encampments are still being forced to clean up anti-Israel graffiti.
"Free Palestine" and "Palestine" were graffitied on two buildings at the University of Portland, a private Catholic school in Oregon that is not facing a student occupation. Campus Safety and Emergency Management Director Michael McNerney told The Beacon, a student newspaper, that the clean-up cost is estimated to be in the thousands.
"Unfortunately, because of the amount of work that's required to remove and or paint over ... we're talking about thousands of dollars in damage most likely," McNerney said. "This is a pretty serious crime at this point."
...Protest encampments have sprung up at more than three dozen private and public schools across the United States since Columbia University students in New York City began a "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" earlier this month.
Some universities are also facing lawsuits related to the demonstrations. For example, Columbia faces multiple lawsuits from anti-Israel student groups, protesters and Jewish students. Harvard University also faces lawsuits from Palestinian students and Jewish students.
Besides losing money due to increased costs of security, additional cleanups and other protest-related issues, some schools are also losing major donors.
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, billionaire investor Leon Cooperman and industrialist Len Blavatnik have withdrawn donations to Columbia University or are considering doing so following the anti-Israel demonstrations on campus. The trio have donated nearly $100 million to Columbia, according to an estimate cited by the New York Post.
The cost of the protests is not entirely financial, either.
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California?
No arrests made, no one held responsible.
Of course.
BTTT
Reminds me of the old Li’l Abner comic strip from 1966 in which the Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything (S.W.I.N.E.) take over the campus.
The terrified University Regents sell the University to the Mafia who brings in the mob enforcers.
Here come the SWINE protesting!
I still get a thrill remembering how the leader of the S.W.I.N.E. used his front teeth to assault the brass knuckles of the mob enforcers. Who says brass won’t make a spark! These did. Big ones at that!
We just shut down our protest using the “street preacher” rule. You are not allowed to “demonstrate” on campus without a permit. Two dozen “students” were arrested for trespassing.
Excellent.
:^)
So far this seems to be mostly elite Northeastern universities and a few on the West coast. If parents can’t find a good public university in their state, they can send their kids to a good public university in the South (and probably pay less, even with out-of-state tuition than they would pay for an Ivy League school).
“Anti-Israel protests cost colleges millions in property damage while major donors back out”
Hey no problemo ... most of the universities affected by those protests have bankrolled millions and some billions of $$$ thanks to US taxpayers the the CCP who “donates” millions to them to allow their CCP backed students to get “educated” and steal our technology.
MY GOVERNOR!
He needs to add the firing of complicit professors to his list! Goading student to break the law should be grounds for immediate termination!
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